It’s unimaginable to not be mesmerized by the customized Louis Vuitton look Cate Blanchett wore to the 2024 BAFTAs. Take the detailing on her gem-encrusted choker, which unfurled right into a two-strand physique chain of Tahitian pearls that wrapped round her high-neck claret costume. Such magnificence, in fact, is traditional Cate—and so, too, is the sustainability message hidden beneath the floor of the look.

Nicolas Ghesquière used the maison’s present inventory to craft the crepe-jersey costume, which required 150 hours of labor, whereas Francesca Amfitheatrof, Louis Vuitton’s inventive director of watches and jewellery, chosen and rearranged gems from older collections to create Blanchett’s show-stopping choker—a course of the model calls “artistic circularity.” “Deadstock shouldn’t be a horny phrase,” Blanchett tells Vogue. “However Nicolas used it to make a powerful, horny costume, and Francesca has introduced her artistry to the fore but once more to rearrange and redesign a spectacular piece of physique jewellery. I’m in awe of them each and relish collaborating with them at Louis Vuitton.”

It’s removed from the primary time Blanchett has used the crimson carpet to assist thrust the difficulty of local weather grow to be the highlight. As president of the jury of the 2020 Venice Movie Pageant, Blanchett declared that she would solely put on appears she had beforehand appeared in on the crimson carpet—now a daily behavior with the intention to spotlight the difficulty of extra manufacturing within the vogue business.

Amfitheatrof labored carefully with the actor and her stylist, Elizabeth Stewart, to conjure a novel creation that might be worn in a outstanding and revolutionary manner. “It isn’t merely Cate’s private fashion however her artistic output that’s so inspiring,” says Amfitheatrof. “She has personified so many unbelievable characters that it evokes me to lean on historical past and drama, permitting emotion to be expressed by means of the designs. We share a mutual and really honest perception within the message of those designs—there’s loads of love behind this undertaking. It isn’t a ‘collaboration,’ it’s a privilege.”

The flowery choker/physique chain hybrid options pearls in a variety of shades and incorporates a diamond chain emblazoned with the Louis Vuitton monogram, offset by three distinctive gems aligned vertically throughout the piece: a 15.25-carat cushion-cut pink spinel on the coronary heart of a double diamond-studded monogram; a ten.73-carat cushion-cut tsavorite garnet; and at last a 2.70-carat oval purple sapphire embraced by diamonds. The result’s essentially the most elegant tackle an eco-warrior’s armor.